Thanks for listening, folks. Just a couple more oldies to re-record, and that'll be it for the mythos do-overs.

@robbiehogg2429

8 ай бұрын

Hi just want to say thank for replying

@timscott7151

8 ай бұрын

Really awesome content here. My son and I sat in the dimly lit room and enjoyed a trip through this outstanding strange tale.

@CthulhuApocalypse

8 ай бұрын

I wish this was just fiction…

@casard5235

7 ай бұрын

This story is very engaging. Okay, I'm sucked in every time that I read or listen to it. Mostly because of the cyclopean ending, but the story buildup makes the package whole. Curious? Movie worthy.

@edmundczestkowski6046

7 ай бұрын

​@@robbiehogg2429😮

Cthulhu on Wheel of Fortune: "I'd like to buy a vowel."

@countiblis1246

Ай бұрын

Ny_rl_th_t_p

I won't turn down listening to a classic.

@popevimtoripkeefhappysackXXX

7 ай бұрын

You mean Combine Harvester by The Wurzels ?

@ZacHalls

6 ай бұрын

Especially since it's unedited, I dislike how people change the language of a book in order to be PC.

@lavona8204

6 ай бұрын

I usually turn them up.

@fishdude666ify

Ай бұрын

I'll turn it UP though! 😝

The first recording I ever heard Horrorbabble perform was this classic right here. Outstanding update!

I was so frustrated with the audiobooks as being read either too fast or without enough internal contemplation of the text. Your reading is just much more believable. An English gentleman laying out the story. Very authentic feeling. Much more even than the Lovecraft Preservation Society.

@HorrorBabble

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind words.

"Original unedited text" and "Lovecraft" is probably sending KZreads censor bots into a drooling panic

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

We've had trouble before, but censorship is a terrible thing.

@user-zu5st3ws4r

8 ай бұрын

I completely agree!

@jonbaird8835

8 ай бұрын

thank you for every single upload@@HorrorBabble

@PrinceLukeee_TvT

20 күн бұрын

The racism is wild though. But yeah, censorship SUCKS.

This and Horror at Red Hook are my all-time favorites. They introduced me to the mythos, and I got hooked. Thank you for the new recording!

@kevinfogle7929

9 ай бұрын

I'm hoping for a horror at Red Hook recording

@cam2351

8 ай бұрын

Horror at Red Hook is a personal favorite as well.

@thefisherking78

16 күн бұрын

​@@kevinfogle7929They have it only on Bandcamp for now

Yay Lovecraft ❤! Thank you so much 🙏 🕯♥️✨👑✨♥️🕯

Hell muthafu*kin yeah! Appreciate it bub 🎩

This makes it a great day. Thanks for keeping me focused on Lovecraft with this new series.

Thank you so much for this! I listen to dagon at 2AM this morning and was just tuning back in! Only to see you've redone call of cthulu as it's one of my favorite along with shadow over innsmouth....your delivery is impeccable the only reader i tune in for lovecraft

This is super awesome. I'm currently using it to practice my English pronounciation in an entertaining way by stepwise reading a sentence aloud and then listening to it on here. It also makes me appreciate the amazingly high skill that when into reading it, particulary the pacing and emphasis of the sentences and the little sub-sentences. Lovecraft seems to not use as many commas as modern day writers do, so the sentences can be sometimes challenging to deconstruct into nice understandable chunks.

(Just started this one, but have listened to several+ of your other readings. I assume the narrator is also the channel owner.) I'm suddenly hooked to a genre that I've never given the time of day to previously. I was always told I would love Lovecraft, in particular, but I didn't realize I was a fan of horror or Lovecraft until your channel - for I was mislead: As a child of the '80s, to me, horror was a casual, pop culture, light affair - Freddy Krueger, Jason, and Poltergeist. Memes before memes were rendered into a concept. I assumed the entertaining depth was in sci-fi mostly because fantasy was too prone to cheap plot devices and what else is there? Anyway, I have a century to catch up on, and I owe it to a chance encounter with you. Thank you for your passion and perfection.

@paulandreotti1639

8 ай бұрын

I sincerely hope you check out the Algernon Blackwood stories, The Wendigo and The Willows. Ian's talent at sound design is on full display on those recordings. If you don't have noise cancelling headphones, consider getting a pair!

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, Steve!

@Dark_Mishra

7 ай бұрын

@@paulandreotti1639Just listened to The Willows on an audiobook. Excellent slow burn horror and I’ve been looking into Blackwood’s other works as well now.

This is definitely a great day!!! Had to work so now the whole arcade will listen with me to Horrorbabble. 💀

First series of original Cthulhu Mythos stories? How rapturous! You're right, this is a perfect way to set the mood.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

We've got some great stories lined up from some wonderful new authors.

Well, no reason not to check it out. The old one was spectacular.

Ah,, that was worth re-visiting. Nice, thanks. "Let me write this thing that I hope no one ever reads" is quite a strange trope.

Great job! This is my favorite Lovecraft story. I'm so happy to hear the new rendition.

What a beautiful world that man had in his soul

@twistedenvoy3531

5 ай бұрын

And dont let anyone tell you otherwise. Lovecraft had one of the most vivid imaginations in fiction.

@countiblis1246

Ай бұрын

A magnificent and terrifying world, absolutely! But beautiful...? "The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."

I make a playlist every day for my insomnia and am going through all your H.P. Lovecraft.

@nsob8897

8 ай бұрын

Are you sure it's not just being unable to stop listening to these stories? Maybe that's just my problem. Haha I've sat up so many nights listening to these stories over and over. In all seriousness, I hope you can find some way to get through insomnia if you're truly suffering. Lack of sleep is no joke and people are all too often unaware of the detriment it is to a person's well being. Best of luck, and at least you have some great stories at hand to help.

@Zatch_Couch

6 ай бұрын

I fully understand. That's what I'm doing too. Lol I fell asleep on chapter 2.

“Everything that I can remember, I have told with perfect candour. Nothing has been distorted or concealed, and if anything remains vague, it is only because of the dark cloud which has come over my mind-that cloud and the nebulous nature of the horrors which brought it upon me…” Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe!

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

Thanks as always!

Thank you , Ian , I need to hear a good story .. especially by one of my favorite narroraters くコ:彡🐙🦑🦐🦪🐚🦀🦭

This narrative is top notch. Thanks sir!

Re-listening to this has brought a revelation to me, much like Lovecraft wrote in the beginning of this story, his works are much more horrifying when you've collected enough pieces from each one to link things in each story to every other story and horrible truth, which is why whenever I heard of shoggoths or the void where azathoth lays first, I didn't think much of it, but now I get goosebumps whenever someone mentions those malign and horrible flutes and drums that keep the demon sultan asleep, and the same goes for those nightmare creatures fashioned by the elder things.

I have the most vexing urge to travel to the South Pacific. So well done!

@davenik1999

8 ай бұрын

As if you had been imperiously summoned, perhaps?

A most excellent presentation. I prefer your narration to all others. 😃

Always have time for a classic.

I'm currently painting the giant cthulhu from CMONs Cthulhu death may die. So this is a nice background while I loose my mind painting the damn thing.

I love how pervasive The Mythos has come to be since Lovecraft's days. Elder gods slid into small contents or even big obvious references. So many people hearing the eldritch horrors without realizing it at all. I love it just as much as I love your recordings. Thanks again for helping me relax when I sleep or even when I don't. Y'all are my jam.

I got the KZread notification of Cthulhu for this video and tuned right in

LOOOOVE LOVECRAFT CTHULHU MYTHOS 💀💀💀💜💜💜💜🔥🔥🔥🔥👌👌👌👌 KEEP IT COMING

Yeah! a classic story . I like the introduction. The Lovecraftian horror In a paragraph.

Commenting before I listen tonight, I'm excited for some good old HorrorBabble entertainment. Once I'm done listening, I'll update. Well folks, I'm back to update when I first subscribed to the hb I listened to his cthulhu mythos comp with all the stories, but this set has always been one of my favourites other than shadow over insmouth but well once again I've been pulled into the stories with clear understanding on what's being read but what's more important is hearing the amount of passion and love HB gives in every video not just this one keep up the amazing work and thank you for being one of the greats I listen to whilst painting my minis

@NeganPlays

8 ай бұрын

@HorrorBabble

Ian Gordon has to be one of my most favorite readers! I've got a number of Audible recordings of him reading, mainly Lovecraft. Such a mellow and fruity voice that is wonderful to hear! His reading of The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is something I listen to over and over again! So entertaining. I've subscribed to this and plan on enjoying it as well! 🙂

@HorrorBabble

7 ай бұрын

Thank you for subscribing!

Talk about the icing on the end of my day cake!

Just a quibble about artistic renderings in general: Lovecraft described Cthulhu as having a face consisting of “a mass of feelers.” He never mentions eyes. Personally, I find the concept of Cthulhu as a being who doesn’t need conventional eyes, but rather relies on otherworldly senses, as more alien and creepier.

@ShoggothLord

9 ай бұрын

This is true, but Lovecraft also sketched the Legrasse Idol in profile in one of his letters, with a triangle of three eyes visible-suggesting six eyes in total on Great Cthulhu.

@gregbors8364

9 ай бұрын

@@ShoggothLord Interesting. I wasn’t aware of that

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

Interesting on both fronts. I think Lovecraft did his best to keep the details vague, and with good reason.

@Joe_Potts

7 ай бұрын

​​@@ShoggothLord the "eyes" on the idol may not actually be eyes either. The idol was most likely created by human, driven mad they may be. Eyes would seem natural for a human to put on a statue to make some semblance of sense, but thats the opposite of what Cthulhu is. The things we mistook for eyes could just be some other type of organ, or maybe just bumps on the Old One's head. Hardened scales, perhaps?

a nice re-recording a great listen for working

Nice!

Loving these re-uploads from older readings

💜🖤H.P. Lovecraft.🖤💜 thank you Horrorbabble 🙏

I listened to your original reading of this story in bed last night. Spooooky.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

The first version was my introduction to your works back in 2018. Still prefer the SFX added in that one, but this one is an instant favorite as well. Great job, HB! Looking forward to your own Mythos stories.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

I was tempted to keep the FX, but I think this version needed to stand on its own two tentacles.

You DARE mess with perfection, sir?! How could you best your previous reading? Hahaha I can't wait to get off work in a few hours so I can listen to this. May azathoth bless you for making these fine readings. Well, having listened, it's good. Thanks again

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

I'm not a huge fan of my first recording of it...

@nsob8897

8 ай бұрын

@HorrorBabble no? I can't think of a way to disagree with you without sounding like I'm fawning but, keep up the good work. It hasn't failed you yet.

Every now and then, KZread randomly adds this to my smart downloads and I think.. yup. Every time 😁

Yes please! 💛💛💛

Really looking forward to hearing the next one.with regards and thanks.

OH PERFECT! was looking for what next to watch and now I get to listen to a classic. Tyvm 😁

Another outstanding classic video many thanks as always Ian!😎👊👍

This is my lullaby.

I'm so excited for next Wednesday!

Perfect for a late evening in the guard shack. Awesome ‼️

We hear it even now....

Amazing I’ll wait tonight to listen I’m so glad you did this thank you for all your work Ian ❤❤❤

Can't wait to listen to this recording. Not my favorite Lovecraft story but well worth a listen from everyones favorite reader.

@rainking4242

8 ай бұрын

What is your favorite HPL story?

Ohhhhh it's here! X

Great re-recording! I love both your readings. Thank you for leaving both up.

Amazing recording! Thanks

I must have read this story two dozen times but your excellent narration makes it an absolute joy to experience it again.

Fantastic x

I love Horror Babble ❤

Great reading, really brought the near-century old tale to life. It hit me this time around that maybe TCOC had an influence on Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. All those people obsessed with that mountain shape (and the main character shaping it out of potato) is somewhat like that artist making a Cthulhu sculpture. Or maybe I’m reaching a bit far!

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

An interesting reach, though!

A true classic, presented once again by the best. This is a story that will forever be timeless, and will exist and be told long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.

Excellent job. My favorite

I always let it go to voicemail.

You KNEW I would be here Sir Ian...thank you my friend😁

Excellent narration of one of the best stories. Thanks so much.

Wonderful new recording!

Awesome, thank you. Still a classic.

Finally heard this late tonight! One of Lovecraft’s best!

Best Cthulhu reading ever!

I lost my Babble virginity to the old version of this and sounds like I’m not alone.

This story is what began my obsession with Lovecraft's writing.

❤❤❤

The Best 🐙🐙 Thanks 🐙🐙 love you !! 🐙🐙

Perfect timing! I was just going to listen to call of Cthulhu on your channel about a week ago after I bought a collection of Lovecraft's most popular works, and the first volume of a manga version of "The Mountains of Madness" by Gou Tanabe. It seems he also has a manga version of The Call of Cthulhu as well, although I'm not sure if it's translated into English. I can read Japanese but the wording/kanji is quite difficult and mostly above my level of reading. And then, I see my favorite channel post a re-recording of TCoC. Truly perfect timing. Thank you so much for doing these, no one could do them better than you! ❤🎉❤❤🎉🎉❤❤

Lovely to hear a new reading from you

Thanks for posting this incredible story. I had to listen to this twice before understanding the ship was backed up to chew on the monster with propellers. I'm easily influenced by such stories so I don't listen to Lovecraft before going to bed. This is one dreamscape I don't want to experience.

Thank you

❤thanks

This was my first time listening to Call of Cthulhu! Was perfect will definitely be listening to again as well as other Lovecraft stories! Thanks very much for the great presentation!

Thank you for this amazing reading.

Babble King! Mentor!

Cthulhu after waking up from his nap to resume rule of earth like its just another tuesday

Fantastic! 😊

I await the day that a movie worthy of such writtings is made

Nailed it!

Beautifully done! The only thing I have against it was the pronunciation of bas-relief. I was always taught that the “s” is silent.

@nsob8897

8 ай бұрын

I think brittish people do it to irritate the French. Hahaha

@dartmart9263

8 ай бұрын

@@nsob8897 LOL But then they expose their closet Francophile side when they use “centre” instead of “center”, and many other examples of British predilection for French spellings.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

This comes up a lot. I've always said it with an extremely loud 'S'. I think it's okay either way: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bas-relief

Fantastic narration

We sacrificed to Ctulhu during the eclipse. It was a regal sacrifice of beer brats, sauerkraut and potato salad. He didn't rise. Well better luck next time.

Love that you guys are going to make your own mythos stories. Thought of it myself. Hope yours are pretty good.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

One of the stories will be written by myself -- the others are by new (or should I say, 'living') authors.

Lovely 🫶🏼

Thank you for bringing back this classic! Will you be doing the others or just this one? Either way its cool.

@HorrorBabble

8 ай бұрын

I've done a few already. Just a couple more to go, including Innsmouth. I'll tidy up the playlists later in the year when everything is recorded.

@lukebarroso449

8 ай бұрын

@@HorrorBabble That sounds amazing! Thank you for your hard work! Hope your channel continues to grow.

Two Cajuns were walkin in de bayou outside New Orleans. One looked at the other and say "Me, last night I saw KTHULHU right here, right in dis very swamp! His friend cast both eye on him and say " For R'lyeah??" 😂😂 He say I GAAAUURRRONNTEE you think I'm told you a lie?"

Love listening to this! 52:49

NIce!

Fell asleep listening to this, had shall we say "interesting" dreams 😂

"...and it was not meant that we should voyage far." HorrorBabble: Hold my beer...

Bane makes a surprisingly good narrator!

I love hearing stuff in regards to Georgian Architecture, we do have some really awesome colonial style homes and some really awesome steepled churches here in Savannah ( my home town lol )

Man having the right voice means everything for audiobooks. I just finished reading this and Dunwich Horror a few days ago but I'm gonna listen anyway. I'm about to start "Mountain of Madness" I think it's called. I found a website that has a ton of free ebooks so I been binge reading 😂